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Category Archives: Symbian

Choosing Mobile Development Platform

There’s been a lot of heated discussions in the blogosphere in the past month about mobile platforms from independent developer perspective. Which platform to choose, if you want to develop cool applications, reach a lot of users and maximize your revenues?
I previously wrote on this subject a year ago, when Android was announced, and three [...]

Google Android vs. Nokia Series 60 – what would it take to build a better mobile phone?

The long awaited Google phone turned out to be just an OS. What does it mean for us, mobile software developers?
Personally, I think this is great news. An open mobile platform is something that was long due to stir up the world of RIM-Windows-Symbian.
Android managed to get many things right from the very beginning, [...]

Symbian Platform Security – hacked?

(Via: Gábor Török and Antony Pranata)
Well, hacked – sort of. Apparenlty it is possible to obtain AllFiles capability for your applications by changing a few lines in Nokia Software Update files and flashing your phone, as described here.
For developers that means that with certain amount of effort they will be able to make their life [...]

Symbian OS Platform Security – good or evil?

In the past couple of months I’ve been doing internal trainings, and on pretty much every one of them I was getting questions regarding Symbian platform security. And to be honest, platform security is something that made me loose my sleep a few times over the past couple of years.
But I don’t want this to [...]